This chapter was headed “A few records,” and surely this set up by Premier and Nellie Blacklegs is one.
There were princes andblacklegs and adventurers; some with real rank and fortune, others as destitute of character as of means.
Without a little scrutiny of this kind our salons would be overrun with blacklegs and bad characters!
Buckets of water, however, and even bits of stone and scrap iron were surreptitiously flung down the shaft; and when the blacklegs did appear, they were nearly frightened out of their senses.
Tam Donaldson, they escorted the blacklegs to their homes.
And soon the three blacklegs began dropping in upon me evenings, sometimes together, sometimes separately.
They love 'em even as union shearers on strike love blacklegs brought up-country to take their places.
It's bad enough for the Giraffe to undermine our religious prejudices, and tempt us to take a morbid interest in sick Chows and Afghans, and blacklegs and widows; but when he starts mixing us up with strange women it's time to buck.
He consorted much with blacklegs and such-like, because blacklegswere to his taste.
These blacklegs from New York appeared like gentlemen.
I was introduced to the blacklegs in your bar-room, and by a scamp who was a habitual lounger here.
They overtook the blacklegs far up country, and Peter tackled them.
Sir Francis Clavering was a gambler, living notoriously in the society of blacklegs and profligates.
There were a few that got up a cry to go and drive all the blacklegs out; and the meeting adjourned, and the men started and went up in the direction of the shops.
What class of men were those that talked about driving the blacklegs out of the shops and mills?
Monsieur Frossard challenged him to a game at backgammon in the near future, and Dubourg, who considered himself very strong at that game, hoped to recoup a part of his losses at the hands of the blacklegs at Lyon.
At even the most irreproachable club there may be one blackleg, but if it is clear that this place is the haunt ofblacklegs we can break it.
It was under these names that they hired lodgings, in a wretched lodging house in Faubourg Saint-Jacques, having no other associates than blacklegs and men without means, who like Dufresne had reasons of their own for avoiding the daylight.
Dufresne and Lampin taught him all the methods employed by blacklegs to play, without risk of loss, with such gulls as would play with them.
Many of the men I knew to be swindlers and blacklegs of the very lowest stamp; some others I recognised as persons of the highest station in my own country.
They would not visit the curate's wife and sister in Durham, but they will ride out at Baden with blacklegs and swindlers!
The Tory-Socialist side of him thus appreciated, while the Liberal-Individualist side applauded the blacklegs coming up from work.
Blacklegs were surrounded threateningly by strikers; the police drew nearer.
That greeny's got to learn to let blacklegs alone, and he don't look like one that'll take advice.
There are also rooms for gambling, which is the staple amusement, not only for the blacklegs and swindlers, who resort to the establishment, but for the nobility and gentry.
The nobility and gentry, as well as the blacklegs and swindlers of all the nations of Europe, gather there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blacklegs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
